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by zoomer
Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:38 pm
Forum: Announcements Discussions
Topic: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement
Replies: 206
Views: 74264

Re: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement

one of the main points about trademark infringement is infringement against another in the same or simiilar category, which the ms office logo is registered in, and in a zillion-and-one different computer/software related categories.. the dove soap logo is a virtual non-issue for a computer softwar...
by zoomer
Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:57 pm
Forum: Announcements Discussions
Topic: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement
Replies: 206
Views: 74264

Re: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement

This is a nice logo. Kudos to the designer.  Yeah it looks KINDA like a MS icon and it looks KINDA like the Ubuntu logo, but it appears to be an original design and let's face it... it KINDA looks like it has tuning forkes in it, but nobody complained about Joomla! having nothing to do with mu...
by zoomer
Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:31 am
Forum: Announcements Discussions
Topic: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement
Replies: 206
Views: 74264

Re: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement

nickpledge wrote:I had no idea there was a thread running on this, i would not have pm'ed people else. I too found some simlar... but within the core files on win98



i had run across that just the other day too.. that icon is based on the 'z' (0x7A) in microsoft's wingdings font (wingding.ttf).
by zoomer
Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:13 am
Forum: Announcements Discussions
Topic: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement
Replies: 206
Views: 74264

Re: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement

folders wrote:Hi

Off the subject a bit.
Can someone post the url of the order of the winners are please.
Curious to see how I did  :).

Thanks


the results are buried up in this thread a bit.
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... l#msg55080
by zoomer
Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:06 am
Forum: Announcements Discussions
Topic: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement
Replies: 206
Views: 74264

Re: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement

I too thought this logo was too close to Microsoft products. Those 4 coulors are known to be used by M$ in most of their products (Win, Office). But, hey, I should have said something earlier and now we have to live with it. Congrats to the winner! Are the other logos Open Source? If not consider d...
by zoomer
Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:56 am
Forum: Announcements Discussions
Topic: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement
Replies: 206
Views: 74264

Re: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement

bluesaze wrote:Wow Jbird MIssed the vote by 2%



here, a 2 percent margin is enough for a run-off election.
by zoomer
Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:50 am
Forum: Submit Your Suggested Tips & Tricks Here
Topic: FAQ: How to do yearly update of copyright information
Replies: 8
Views: 5203

Re: FAQ: How to do yearly update of copyright information

bluesaze wrote:well for now its got be 2005-2005 cos joomla has just started.........


perhaps, but a copyright notice on a web page is for the CONTENT, not the back-end software.. mine dates back to 1994.
by zoomer
Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:50 am
Forum: Submit Your Suggested Tips & Tricks Here
Topic: FAQ: How to do yearly update of copyright information
Replies: 8
Views: 5203

Re: FAQ: How to do yearly update of copyright information

might want to start that with a year before the current one, so you don't get 'copyright 2005 - 2005'...
by zoomer
Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:46 am
Forum: Announcements Discussions
Topic: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement
Replies: 206
Views: 74264

Re: Discussion : Logo Winner Annoucement

my first impression when i saw this logo is that it looked like a microsoft one... microsoft office 2003 for windows...
see http://office.microsoft.com (upper left).

jbird was my favorite of the 5 finalists.